The mind can get divided each time we experience a traumatic stress. The more we understand the mind of the patients with DID, the more convinced we are that our mind has that nature. Each time a serious event occurs, a new personality can develop which holds that event.
If each personality is in charge of its proper memory, the personality and the memory are inseparably connected to each other. The fact that one experiences an event means that there is a personality with the memory of that event. It would be fortunate if that personality is continuous to the main body of it, but unfortunately it is not always the case in patients with DID.
I show a diagram here describing these conditions. (Diagram #2)
In this diagram, the vicissitude of a person is shown along the vertical axis of time. The∩shape indicates the personality of each moment when a major event occurs. These are stacked up on top of each other, forming a pile of personalities as an individual history of a person. You may notice, however, that these ∩shapes are not directly on top of each other, but are somehow dislocated to each other, subtlety in right or left. This depicts a condition where each time a major event occurs; our self consciousness self-image is shook up and fluctuates. He would have a lower self-esteem after some failure or uplifted and inflated self image after a small success, and so on. You also notice that there are two columns made of ∩shape piles. The column on the left side describes a life without a major trauma whereas the right one sustains t trauma.
Let us examine the life without trauma first. Imagine that you are 30 years old and compare yourself with who you were at the age 15. the self-awareness at the age 15 is descried as∩(15) and that of 30 by ∩(30).in your mind, ∩(15)and ∩(30) are continuous, as you are already who you are, at least in your mind, at the age 15 or before. You feel that although many things occurred and you are changed, you are still who you are.
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